After beating Lakeside by two the night before, Grovetown High School’s basketball game against Evans Tuesday night came down to the wire as well.

With the outcome still in the balance with 17 seconds remaining, freshman JV call-up Trenton Bowdre sank both ends of a one-and-one to give the Warriors (7-3) the final margin in their 66-61 win over the Knights in the fifth-place game of the Monterrey Christmas Tournament at Evans.

Grovetown offensive lineman D'Ante Smith was in Atlanta this past week after he was selected to play in the second annual Georgia Elite Junior Classic. Only 70 of the top junior football players in the Peach State are chosen to play. Last year Columbia County was represented by Lakeside's Rashad Roundtree and Stephen Houzah.

Both lanes of Interstate 20 eastbound were closed for about two hours after a tractor-trailer dumped diesel fuel for a few hundred yards across the roadway Wednesday morning.

At 6:15 a.m., the truck, loaded with peanut butter and jelly, was traveling eastbound on I-20 near Belair Road when the driver drifted and struck a disabled vehicle in the emergency lane, catching fire and coming to rest in the median, according to Columbia County sheriff’s Maj. Rick Whitaker.

Oil dry was put down to absorb the fuel and drivers were diverted onto Belair Road.

Augusta Christian senior Calvin Taylor has a good problem heading into the new year.

The 6-9 Taylor will have to choose whether he wants to play football or basketball collegiately.

“I have possibilities in both,” said Taylor. “I’m consulting with my family and just praying about it and letting God steer me. I plan on choosing which one I’m going to do in January. That’s when I’m going to decide.”

There are 85 schools in Class AAAAA. So for the boys AAAAA state golf title to come down to a playoff between schools separated by only a few miles is unlikely, but that is what happened in May, with Greenbrier winning after a one-hole playoff.